Fruit Splash :)

[Cow_king]

This is my first time making one of these and after a basic search I didn’t find any how I took it on this so here goes.

First of all I don’t claim any kind of credit for inventing this it’s been around and tons of people do it a few basic Google searches will even find you a how to on this sort of thing but there wasn’t any here ( I think lol)

Ok first thing I did was think about what kind of fruit I wanted to photograph I made a trip to the store and bought all sorts of fruits and veggies.

Ok for my setup I used a 10 gallon fish tank and filled it with 5 gallons of spring water. I read using tap water can give you hard water lines. I set up my camera a few feet in front of the tank with a soft box to my left facing into the tank.

I had another flash behind the tank facing the back of the tank and a third flash facing a white backdrop.

I started off using a lot of power from my strobes and a high f stop but I found that I was getting a little more blur then I wanted and I have read that less energy being disbursed from the flash tube can make for a faster strobe so I lowered my f stop to f 8 and lowered the power of all my strobes.

Here is a picture of my setup with my camera phone




My wife dropped the fruit for me and yes sometimes we had to do it a few times before we got some good ones but it was fun and worth it.

My advice make sure to have some towels handy lol also have fun with it I even dropped pizza in it and it kind of turned out fun :P


My camera info
Canon 7D
lens Canon 70-200mm 2.8L is ii
iso 100
f 16 then f8

Any questions please feel free to ask if you have advice for me please feel free to share but don’t be negative or a jerk forums can be a scary place to open up and this is my first time sharing so please enjoy

[yulchick]

o wow thats great! The setup picture is a lot of help great job!

[Cow_king]

np thanks also it helps instead of getting level with the water line get just under it i forgot to add that :P

[MOmilkman]

Looks like Im going to have to buy a fish tank again. I can think of several things I could use a fish tank for (other than for fish lol)
Guess I'll hit the garage sales this next summer. They are always a dime a dozen there.

Love the pics and the tutorial.

Here's my try from a couple weeks ago:

This was thanks to pascalbovet.com 's tutorial help.

Ive got to get another strobe so I can work some color in the BG.

Again, nice work.

[Cow_king]

Thanks it was fun we made a heck of a mess lol i just wish i had some gels so i could have colored the background

Dang very nice if thats what you got in a glass just imagine what you can do with more water lol that strawberry looks very tasty its nice and sharp also two thumbs up

[jr211]

Cowking,
Awesome pics and great tutorial. The pics of the setup really helped.
Just curious since I didn't see it in your description, what was your shutter speed for these pics? Is it the fast shutter speed or strobe (or combo of both) that freezes the action?
TFS.

[Cow_king]

Strobes control the stopped motion i was using 1/160 shutter i imagine if i got lower then 1/80th or less then MAYBE i would get more blur

take what i say like a grain of salt cuz im no pro lol

but thanks much i also did some other fruit macro the same night and been thinkin about showing my setup for that

[jr211]

Thanks for your reply. I think I need to get some strobes next. I've been working on freezing water drops but have not been successful.
The pics you showed here turned out beautifully, especially the lemon/lime pic.
I'd like to see the fruit macros too when you get them posted.

[Cow_king]

ill work on a how to guide on the macro shots if you wanna see em right now feel free to visit my site i just put some up today

Impressions by Troy Blog

[Shutterbugdeb]

I love those splash shots! Brilliant and thanks for sharing!